THAILAND STRENGTHENS SECURITY ALONG MYANMAR BORDER
July 13 ,2020
The Thai Immigration Bureau said that it had dispatched hundreds of officers to patrol porous areas bordering Myanmar for fear of illeg...
DOZENS HOSPITALIZED AFTER BLAST NEAR NDS OFFICE IN SAMANGA...
July 13 ,2020
A suicide car bomb explosion claimed by the Taliban happened on Monday morning in front of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) c...
ILO SUMMIT COMMITS TO CREATING BETTER WORLD OF WORK AFTER...
July 13 ,2020
Speaking at the close of the Global Summit on Covid-19 and the World of Work, the director-general said, "I think it is difficult to ov...
4 BANGLADESHI MOVIES TO BE SCREENED IN DELHI FILM FEST
July 13 ,2020
A post of government-funded film ‘Maya, the Lost Mother’ which will be screened at the Indus Valley International Film Fe...
JAMUNA GROUP CHAIRMAN BABUL DIES OF COVID-19
July 13 ,2020
Nurul Islam Babul, chairman of Jamuna Group, has died today from novel coronavirus infection at the age of 74.
He breathed his last on...
CHINA TO SANCTION US SENATORS RUBIO, CRUZ OVER XINJIANG
July 13 ,2020
China announced sanctions against US officials including Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in a largely symbolic retaliation over legi...
BANGLADESH COVID-19: BODY COUNT NEARS 2,400, CASES TOP 186...
July 13 ,2020
Death toll from the coronavirus infection has reached near 2,400 in Bangladesh as 39 more people have died of the deadly virus in the p...
PM IMRAN IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE KASHMIRI PEOPLE ON MARTYRS...
July 13 ,2020
On Kashmiri Martyrs' Day (today) Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed support for the Kashmiri people and their continued struggle for t...
13 SECURITY FORCE MEMBERS KILLED IN TALIBAN CLASHES
July 13 ,2020
At least 13 security force members were killed and 11 others were wounded in clashes with the Taliban in the northeastern province of B...
$200M WORLD BANK AID LIKELY TO HELP PAKISTAN FIGHT LOCUSTS
July 13 ,2020
The World Bank’s executive board will later this month approve assistance worth $200 million to help Pakistan control locust swar...
US COURT GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO FIRST FEDERAL EXECUTION IN 1...
July 13 ,2020
The first federal execution in the United States in 17 years looks set to go ahead on Monday after an appeals court overturned a lower...
RACE TO RESCUE TURTLES ENTANGLED IN PLASTIC ON BANGLADESH...
July 13 ,2020
At least 20 turtles have been found dead as dozens more were rescued after getting entangled in plastic waste washed ashore on one of t...
Defying U.S., China and Iran Near Trade and Military Partn...
July 13 ,2020
Iran and China have quietly drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership that would clear the way for billions of dollars of Ch...
US, five other nations want to link South & Central Asia
July 13 ,2020
The United States and five Central Asian countries have pledged to work together to “build economic and trade ties that would con...
4 SECURITY FORCE MEMBERS KILLED IN PARWAN CLASHES
July 13 ,2020
At least four security force members were killed and five others were wounded in a Taliban attack in northern Parwan province on Sunday...
MOTION TO REMOVE SPEAKER ARIFF PASSED BY NARROW VOTE
July 13 ,2020
The motion to remove Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof as Dewan Rakyat speaker was passed by narrow vote today, with 111 government MPs in support...
DEWAN ERUPTS AS MUHYIDDIN SEEKS TO REPLACE SPEAKER
July 13 ,2020
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin (PN-Pagoh) today tabled a motion for Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof to step down as Dewan Rakyat speaker.
Spea...
BANGLADESH MAKES COVID-19 NEGATIVE CERTIFICATE MANDATORY T...
July 13 ,2020
Bangladesh on Sunday decided that none of its citizen would be allowed to leave the country without having a COVID-19 negative certific...
ANWAR RETURNS AS OPPOSITION LEADER
July 13 ,2020
PKR head Anwar Ibrahim was today confirmed as the new opposition leader at the start of the Dewan Rakyat sitting, with speaker Mohamad...
RUSSIA FIRST NATION TO FINISH HUMAN TRIALS FOR COVID-19 VA...
July 13 ,2020
Moscow, Russia has become the first nation to complete clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine on humans, and the results have proven the m...
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